War Notes.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 94, 11 August 1914, Page 7

War Notes.

Mr Van Heck, the well-known nuisician attached to Bernard's Pictures, though of German extraction, is an ftngiishman, born in London. He fought witli tho British in the Boor War and was seriously wounded. fl the* authorities would pass him Mr Van Mock would again offer Ids services foi the front against Germany. During tho Russo-Japanese War a number of the llus«ian ships look refuge in neutral harbors, and, mainly owing to their inability to go to sea lor want of.repairs, or coal, were disarmo(l am l "iiiiernod" in those ports. The position of the Gooben and tho I'rculau would, seem to be, therefore, that tliey must either submit to disarmament a.id internment at Messina, and so be ineffective, or that they must coal and leave for the "nearest port in their own country." In the latter alternative, they will stand a very poor chance of getting far, as the British, and French (loots will be certainly waiting for them outside Messina, and will force them to light or sin render.

-Mr William iMaxwell, who ,de;cribe ; * the morale of the French troops'as superb, knows -What he- -is -talking about. He accompanied Kitchener to Khartoum, went through the Siege 01 Lad.vsmith, witnossed [ho relief ol Kimberley, and the capture of Bloemfontein, was with the Japanese in the Manchuviau and Tort Arthur campaigns', and was in the Balkan War. In addition, he has attended French and German manoeuvres. Mr Maxwell accompanied' the King on his world tour in 1901. Many'of the great German liners arc classifipd as merchant cruisers and auxiliaries 1 to the Gorman Navy. The principal ships arc the Yaterland, 06,000 tons, 23i knots; Imperator, 51,000 tons. 2:: knots: George Washington, 26,000 tons, "19 knots; IvronprTnssesshi Ceciiie, 19,500 tons. 2'D knots; Kaiser Wilhelm 11, 19,500 tons, 93« knots; Berlin, 17,400 tons, 1, knots jKronprinz Wilhohn 1-1,8000 tons 23 knots; Kaiser Wilhelm dor Grosse, I | 349 tons, 23' knots. Many other vessels of loss than 18 knots speed are in the list. The Governor of Victoria is reported bo have mentioned the German toast of "The "Day," as referring to the day when Gcnmvny 1 'would feel strong onough to attack others. But "The Day" has generally been taken to mean "The Day"—the day of mooting between the German and British navies, and it is the toast which, according to report, has keen drunk m German warship mosses for years: past. A few rears ago Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the Kaiser, indignantly ienied that such a toast was drunk.